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North American venture capital reached an all-time high of $392 billion in H1 2026, driven by AI mega-rounds, but a 27% seed funding decline signals a deep market divide. For investors, this K-shaped recovery means concentrating bets on late-stage winners while early-stage innovation languishes, with significant implications for IPO pipelines and risk allocation.
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| What you see | What it tells you |
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| Story count | Number of distinct stories where Crunchbase was a primary or referenced actor. |
| Recency clustering | Whether mentions are concentrated in a recent window (a news cycle) or distributed (a sustained arc). |
| Sentiment distribution | Aggregate sentiment of the stories mentioning this entity, weighted by impact score. |
| Cross-niche links | When the same entity surfaces in our sibling networks, we link to those views to enrich context. |